Scientific realism and the plasticity of mind /
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| Author / Creator: | Churchland, Paul M., 1942- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979. |
| Description: | x, 157 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/298117 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 1. The perspective of scientific realism
- 2. The plasticity of perception
- 2. The semantics of observation predicates
- 3. The conceptual exploitation of sensory information
- 4. The expansion of perceptual consciousness
- 5. The argument from measuring instruments
- 6. Some consequences
- 3. The plasticity of understanding
- 7. The analytic/synthetic distinction
- 8. Meaning and understanding
- 9. Translation: some competing views
- 10. Communication and commensurability
- 11. Intertheoretic reduction and conceptual progress
- 4. Our self-conception and the mind/body problem
- 12. One's knowledge of other minds
- 13. Self-knowledge: a preliminary look
- 14. The incongruent nature of the P-theory
- 15. The mind/body problem
- 16. The expansion of introspective consciousness
- 5. Sentential epistemologies and the natural science of epistemic engines
- 17. Normative epistemology: the problem in perspective
- 18. The sentential kinematics of orthodox epistemology
- 19. Continuity: the problem of the early stages
- 20. The poverty of the ISA approach: further considerations
- 21. Other horizons
- Bibliography
- Index
